Everything Isa

Some software, languages and models that have HobbyHorses.

ActorsModel: everything is an actor configuration.
AplLanguage: everything is a vector.
BrainfuckLanguage: everything is [<+,->].
CeeLanguage: everything is bits, unless it is pointers, which is also bits.
CsharpLanguage: everything is a reference to an object except for value types.
DocumentObjectModel: everything is a node -- except when it's an attribute.
DylanLanguage: everything is a GenericFunction (except when it's a macro).
EeLanguage: everything is a capability.
EmacsEditor: everything is an EmacsLisp function.
ForthLanguage: everything is a word or a cell on a stack (except when it's in dictionary space (or elsewhere)).
GoedelsIncompletenessTheorem: everything is an integer.
HaskellLanguage: everything is a function or a constructor.
HtagLanguage: everything is a command.
IconLanguage: everything is a generator.
InterCal: everything is convoluted.
JavaLanguage (et al): EverythingIsaReference since variables do not directly contain objects except for the PrimitiveType?s.
JavaSwing: everything is spewing out objects.
LambdaCalculus: everything is a function.
LifeIsaBigMessyGraph (a living model)
LindaLanguage: everything is a tuple.
LispLanguage: everything is a list (see EssExpressions).
LuaLanguage: everything is a table (except when it's a string or a number).
MalbolgeLanguage: everything is difficult.
MathematicaLanguage: everything is an expression.
OriginalIoLanguage: everything is a continuation.
PerlLanguage: everything is enactable in more than one way.
PlanNineFromBellLabs: everything is a file server in a namespace.
PostScript: see ForthLanguage
PrologLanguage: everything is a claim or a recursion.
PythonLanguage: everything is a writable, string-indexed dictionary.
RebolLanguage: everything is a dialect.
RelationalDatabase: everything is a relation.
RubyLanguage: everything is an object.
RestArchitecturalStyle: everything is a resource.
ScriptingLanguage: everything is simple (and slow).
SelfLanguage: everything is a slot.
SetTheory: everything is a set (except when it's a class).
SmalltalkLanguage: everything is an object (behavior is caused by message objects).
SnuspLanguage: everything is +-<>/\?!,.@#
SpreadsheetMetaphor: everything is a cell.
StandardTemplateLibrary: everything is a template.
StringTheory: everything is a string.
TexTheProgram: everything is a macro.
TheoryOfRelativity: EverythingIsRelative (except invariants).
TheyMightBeGiants: everything is catchy.
ToolCommandLanguage: everything is a string.
UnixOperatingSystems: everything is a stream (including files).
UnLambdaLanguage: everything is a combinator; everything is `ski.
VisualBasic: everything is a special case.
WhatIsXmlAnyway: everything is a hierarchy of elements (except when they are attributes, or PIs, etc But see DocumentObjectModel below).
DataStructureCentricViewDiscussion: everything is a collection (data structure).
LispWeenies: Everything is a set of nested lists (EssExpressions).
TopMind: Everything is either a dictionary array or a table.
Some GUI frameworks: everything is an event (or every step takes three steps).
Everything can be done in one big loop: EverythingIsRelativeStrangeLoop PageAnchor: one_big_loop
EverythingTwo: everything is a... well, it's everything. Two.
EverythingIsa: Everything is a EverythingIsa.

RE: TheyMightBeGiants - Perhaps this should be Everything is catching on, everything is catching on fire, everything is catching on, everything is catching on fire.

RE: TheoryOfRelativity? - EverythingIsRelative, but not according to Einstein. According to Einstein's TheoryOfRelativity?: Space, time and gravity are relative. Besides, EverythingIsRelativeStrangeLoop.

"DocumentObjectModel: everything is a node -- except when it's an attribute."

No, attributes are nodes too... getting attribute values directly from an element node is just a shortcut.

"WhatIsXmlAnyway: everything is a hierarchy of elements -- except when they are attributes, or PIs, etc."

Uh... attributes, PIs, comments, CDATA, etc. are still stored hierarchically; it's your fault for saying "of elements".

See: BigIdea, YinYangVersusSinglism

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